A simple bash script for rolling RPG style polyhedral dice. once installed to a suitable location in your shell's $PATH, you can simply type: roll 3d6 and it will print the results of 3 six-sided die rolls, and give the total last. if you only want the total (useful for scripting), just use the -q option, eg: roll -q 5d4 If you want to drop a certain number of the lowest dice, pass -d, followed by the number of dice to drop. e.g.: roll 5d6 -d 2 this also works with the -q switch rollhex: an even simpler script that rolls 2d6 $1 times, and converts the result to hexadecimal groll: a graphical frontend TODO: fix groll. It looks nasty, and the ok button isn't default. also, maybe have a picker with some die icons, and a spinbox for number of dice.